Everything was so fucking expensive. They also put in those refrigerators where it has the ads and they're just as fucking awful and weird as the pictures would have you believe. Also, the big cctv showing you as you go down the aisle and check out are fucked. At self check out you can no longer mute it so it has to talk to you. Finally, they hired security to stand at the entrance of the store which is gross. edit: Some stuff was also locked in a cabinet
The devil is in that store. I'm so fucking pissed.
It took me years to understand why I lock up in grocery stores, just autism.
Certain Wegmans stores have really soft lighting and plenty of pleasing brown tones in the signage. Its silly to argue for a grocery store chain but in terms of "soothing elements in the decor improving general vibes" its leagues above most grocery stores I've been to.
I went to a recently opened Barns and Nobel and for some reason the psychopaths in corporate decided this one should be a lot more stark white, blue af lighting, and claustrophobic shelf organization. Thankfully the new Bevins book was right up front and I was able to escape with little damage.
I'm firmly of the option that bookstores should always be some variation on wood tones/furnishing, warm lighting and if possible, a darker shade of carpet.
This infiltration of sterile white into every corner of retail is a sickness.
The only thing worse than sterile white is new apartment gray
It's it just retail. Even homes are like that too now. A friend of mine bought a house with beautiful wood paneling in the kitchen, and the FIRST thing he did was paint that all white.